AN ITALIAN mechanic has created the world’s most ferocious mini-car .

VENTURING into the ocean with self-made spears and nets, the fishermen of Zanzibar put their lives on the line when they catch food for their families .

EAGERLY BITING his nails, this little squirrel is clearly nervous of looming predators as he searches for his meal .

A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .

Animal rescue volunteers have told how a cat riddled with cancer was forced to ripped off its own ears after it was abandoned by its owners .

Some parents would gasp at the thought of their children playing with a toy gun, but these Russian children are actually encouraged to take up real arms .

Splashing around in the water, a mother otter and her son are tangled in a family feud .

PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .

THIS may look like a dolphin through jumping hoops, but it is in fact nothing more than a clever 3D pencil drawing .

A weightlifter has lost a whopping 12st after swapping biscuits for biceps .

She was the 18th century celebrity who made men faint in awe of her beauty by her very presence .

A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .